supported by grants from Instituto de Salud Carlos III(ISCII,grant#PI20CIII/00004 to SR,PI19CIII/00009 to IM,and PI23CIII/00018 to DSC and IM)and Gilead Science(grant#GLD20_0144 to SR);This research was also supported by CIBER‑Consorcio Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red‑(CB 2021);Instituto de Salud Carlos III,Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación and Unión Europea-NextGenerationEU(CB21/13/00044);DSC is a‘Miguel Servet’researcher from ISCIII(grant#CP23CIII/00004);AT‑N is a Ph.D.student in the Biomedical Sciences and Public Health program at the UNED International Doctoral School.
Background The current diagnostic strategy for hepatitis C virus(HCV)infection involves a two-step approach:antibody HCV screening followed by confirmatory nucleic acid testing.This study aimed to evaluate the diagnos...